Many of us were stopped in our tracks over the pictures of the children who were instantly orphaned when their parents' car failed to stop. My daughter wanted to do something. Anything. So she decided to draft out several please, protests and "whys". After a week (lots of stuff going on at school and martial arts commitment) she finally got a letter she liked.
Today her dad will copy it off and she'll handwrite in the To: field and address each envelope herself. She has several listed out in her sparkly journal to receive this.
Unicef, Howard Dean, John Kerry (who she contacted once and mailed him campaign posters she made herself in a school mock election) Her teacher and principal, Nickelodian, AirAmerica, Barbara Boxer. We'll be sending it out to several papers, too.
Here are her words:
Here are her words:
Last week a car in Iraq with two parents and five kids were on their way home. The soldiers shot the front of the car and the parents died. Then the five kids were alone. Shouldn't this be on all the news? It wasn't.
Kids have to stop the killing of kids. That's because adults don't believe each other and grown-ups aren't doing their jobs. Killing an Iraq kid is just like killing a kid from the United States.
How can I help? Writing a letter is all I know what to do. Kids are suffering and nobody's doing anything about it. Please help me find a way to stop the killing. It's just not right. People shouldn't just kill people. Killing kids has nothing to do with freedom.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Danni Nicole snipped - 10-year-old 5th grader
P.S. I'm writing this to a lot of people but not George Bush because he won't do anything and he doesn't care. Again, thank you very much!